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Whole Foods to Change Up Site Selection Strategy

Aug 21, 2012

The fact that upscale grocery chain Whole Foods has long-term plans to operate up to 1,000 stores in the U.S. has been widely publicized...

Music Retailer to Open New Stores

Aug 17, 2012

Does anyone remember going into a dedicated bricks-and-mortar music store? Those have have largely disappeared...

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Aug 14, 2012

How much have American malls changed in the past 20 years...

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Whole Foods In-Depth

Aug 10, 2012

Upscale grocery chain Whole Foods has some ambitious plans for new store openings in the next few years, especially considering how the supermarket segment overall is faring. ...

Update on Best Buy Plan

Aug 08, 2012

The Wall Street Journal revealed some of the details of Richard Schulze's plan to bring Best Buy back to relevance today. Apparently, Schulze's approach would involve lower prices in order to compete with Amazon.com and a great in-store experience...

LBOs Are Back. For Better or for Worse?

Aug 07, 2012

Remember all those leveraged retail buyouts that took place in the mid-2000s? According to Fortune, they might be coming back, including in the just proposed Best Buy buyout. ...

Wal-Mart Not Quite Happy with Express Format

Aug 07, 2012

It might be just a case of growing pains. But once more there are indications that Wal-Mart's new Express format isn't working out quite as planned. ...

Best Buy Founder Makes an Offer

Aug 06, 2012

In a move that's been expected for some time, Best Buy's founder Richard Schulze made an $8.8 billion buyout offer to the chain...

Discounts Drive July Same-Store Sales Increase

Aug 04, 2012

Same-store sales posted by U.S. retailers this July beat analyst expectations with an increase of 4.6 percent, according to a...

Quebec Says No to Lowe's

Aug 02, 2012

When we talk about retailers' international expansion, the idea of partnering with or acquiring local companies to gain instant...

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